Mother quotes

“- FDR: Sir, my mother does not approve of cocktails. And thinks you might rather have a cup of tea?
- Bertie: My mother would have said the same thing. Actually, I prefer a cocktail.
- FDR: A man after my own heart.”
Bill Murray - FDR
Samuel West - Bertie

“My idea has always been that if we could bring the mothers of the various nations together, then there would be no more war.”
Vanessa Redgrave - Ruth Wilcox

“Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

“Everything I am is because of my mom.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar

“I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.”
Frances McDormand

“- James Loop Merritt: Today your mother got so lonesome for your daddy that she went to see him.
- Shirley Blake: All the way up to Heaven?
- James Loop Merritt: All the way up to Heaven. They're up there together now.
- Shirley Blake: You mean... my mother cracked up, too?
- James Loop Merritt: I'm sorry, dear.”
James Dunn - James Loop Merritt
Shirley Temple - Shirley Blake

“Remember, I am your mother. And that means you're not allowed to stay mad at me.”
Drew Barrymore - Beverly Donofrio

“- Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker: I tried to be the best momma I could.
- Connor McGill: How did that go?
- Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker: Not so hot.”
Ellen Burstyn - Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker
Angus Macfadyen - Connor McGill

“- Jewel Ramsey: I didn't expect to see you. It's been a long time.
- Dorie Kay: Well, I came for your birthday, Mama.
- Jewel Ramsey: My birthday was yesterday.”
Shirley Knight - Jewel Ramsey
Juliette Lewis - Dorie Kay

“- Simon: Do you need to call someone or are you a surprise?
- Rachel: I would. My mother cut my phone service off. She's a gem. [tosses phone out of the car]”
Dermot Mulroney - Simon
Lindsay Lohan - Rachel

“I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.”
Queen Latifah

“- Debbie: I was out with a friend.
- Fiona: Oh, a friend? Are all your friends deviant men twice your age?
- Debbie: What are you talking about?
- Fiona: Giving your body to men. You're a whore just like your mother!
- Debbie: Don't call me that! I'm nothing like her.”
Rose McGowan - Debbie Strand
Peg Shirley - Fiona Long

“- Bobby Darin: I want to send 18 yellow roses every day to Mary.
- Charlie Cassotto Maffia: You wanna send roses to the mother?
- Bobby Darin: Charlie, you always make sure the mama dog likes you before you go near her puppy.”

Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin
Bob Hoskins - Charlie Cassotto Maffia

“- Milly: You and my mom have been totally scheming. And and and and now I know exactly why she pushed me on you because she was voting for you. She found you.
- Jason: Yeah but that doesn't take anything away from us. What matters is that we did meet, and how good this is between us. And the truth of that...”
Mandy Moore - Milly
Tom Everett Scott - Jason

I remember in high school her saying, "Now, what'd you want to take that science class for? There's no girls in that science class. You take home ec, why don't you? That's the way to meet the nice boys". "Mom - I said, - there ain't no boys in home ec. The boys are in the science class". She hated when I said "Ain't".
Meryl Streep - Karen Silkwood

“It's easier to get a smile out of an alligator than it is to get one from your mother.”

Mary McDonnell - May-Alice Culhane

“- Sylvia: You are a selfish bastard!
- Peter: I'm selfish? At least I didn't leave my baby on a doorstep when she was six months old!”
Nancy Travis - Sylvia
Tom Selleck - Peter

“- Isaac: I got a kid, he's being raised by two women at the moment.
- Mary: I mean I think that works. They made some studies, I read in one of the psychoanalytic quarterlies. You don't need a male, I mean. Two mothers are absolutely fine.
- Isaac: Really? Because I always feel very few people survive one mother.”
Woody Allen - Isaac
Diane Keaton - Mary

“- Sophie: I don't care if you slept with hundreds of men. You're my mom, and I love you so much.
- Donna: [hugging her] Oh, Soph! And I haven't slept with hundreds of men.”
Amanda Seyfried - Sophie
Meryl Streep - Donna

“It was an old tradition. Only the most dutiful of daughters would put her own flesh in a soup to save her mother's life. My mother did this with her whole heart even though my grandmother had disowned her. This is how a daughter honors her mother. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. This is the most important sacrifice a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lisa Lu - An-Mei

“- Young Elizabeth: Daddy, why don't we throw mommy out the window? It won't hurt her. She'll land in the gladiolas.
- Nigel Cronin: You shouldn't say things like that about your mother... she might cut your head off.”
Ashley Peldon - Young Elizabeth
Daniel Gerroll - Nigel Cronin

“- Tutti: I saw that man on America's Most Wanted.
- Joe Brofmowski: What did he do?
- Tutti: He killed his mother.”
Estelle Getty - Tutti
Sylvester Stallone - Joe Bomowski

“- Mary Surratt: I'm a Southerner. I'm a Catholic and a devoted mother above all else. But I am no assassin.
- Frederick Aiken: Your freedom is gonna require greater assurances than that.”
Robin Wright - Mary Surratt
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Margaret Lewin: Any animal can give birth. That doesn't make it a mother.
- Khaila Richards: Are you calling me an animal? If you think you're going to just take my baby from me like some puppy from a pound, you got another thing coming, lady!”
Jessica Lange - Margaret Lewin
Halle Berry - Khaila Richards

“- Dr. Finch: It would a staged suicide attempt. Of course, your poor mother would have to find you and drive you the hospital, where you would stay for three weeks or a month for observation.
- Augusten Burroughs: I don't know. It doesn't...
- Dr. Finch: Augusten. Where is your spirit of adventure?”

Brian Cox - Dr. Finch
Joseph Cross - Augusten Burroughs